A white jade 'taotie' snuff bottle18th/19th century
Of compressed meiping form, finely carved around the centre with interlocking taotie masks above a band of overlapping lotus petals at the foot, the even white stone with a light russet inclusion, stopper. 5.7cm (2 1/8in) high (2).注脚十八/十九世紀 白玉雕饕餮紋鼻煙壺

Provenance:
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 3 November 1994, lot 989
The Angela Chua Collection

來源：
香港蘇富比，1994年11月3日，拍品編號989
蔡劉木蘭收藏

The form of meiping and the archaistic taotie motif reflect the imperial taste of archaism during the mid-Qing dynasty. Compare with a 'meiping' snuff bottle carved with an archaistic motif band, illustrated by H.Moss, V.Graham and K.B.Tsang, A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection, vol.1, Hong Kong, 1998, no.83, which was later sold at Bonhams Hong Kong, 27 May 2012, lot 135.

白玉質，圓肩束腰，胸部淺浮雕饕餮紋一周。

參考一件白玉雕仿古紋飾梅瓶鼻煙壺，見莫仕撝、V.Graham及曾嘉寶著，《瑪麗及莊智博鼻煙壺珍藏》，卷1，香港，1998年，編號83，後售於香港邦瀚斯，2012年5月27日，拍品編號135。